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Topic: a mystery escapement I've never seen before-- and still haven't (Read 6294 times)

Check out this web site http://www.kavalir.cz/clock/index.html. In it the designer and builder of these rather handsome steel clocks says, "The peg escapement is so constructed that each peg gives four impulses for the pendulum. For that reason it is possible to use a half number of pegs than usual."Now there are a good many pictures from all angles, and the pinwheel is clearly visible but I can't determine the shape or make up of the pallet. Has anyone ever come across one of these clocks, or know of other source material about such an escapement? It would be interesting to know and fun (maybe not so fun) to mess around with in cad and wood.

The site is worth visiting, just to see the elegant design of the clock as a whole and maybe one of you can decode the photographs and tell me what I missed. ThanksRus

Five years later and I still don't see it.Thanks for the new links with photos that weren't in the one I posted five years ago. There is a profile photo that shows what I think are pallet pins arranged like a traditional pinwheel pallet -- one pin over the other but on the same post rather than two arms. I've played with something like that and it can work but I'm still not able to understand four impulses -- still missing something. Some things are meant to be mysteriesThanks Rus

Sounds right. I did a screen capture so I could enlarge the portion of the profile photo and can see two elements that could be anchors for the far points (right side of your drawing) that would match your drawing but really didn't see them in the photo. You are probably right. You know I'm going to draw it if not build it.thanks so much,Rus